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Francis Jack Needham, 2nd Earl of Kilmorey (12 December 1787 – 20 June 1880), known as Viscount Newry from 1822 to 1832, was an Anglo-Irish peer and Member of Parliament. ==Biography== He was the son of General Francis Needham, 1st Earl of Kilmorey. He was elected to the House of Commons for Newry in 1819 (succeeding his father), a seat he held until 1826. In 1832 he succeeded his father in the earldom but as this was an Irish peerage it did not entitle him to a seat in the House of Lords. He served as High Sheriff of Down for 1828. He married Jane Gun-Cuninghame in 1814. Lord Kilmorey scandalised Victorian society by eloping with his ward, Priscilla Anne Hoste, when he was in his late fifties and she was 20. Priscilla Hoste was the daughter of Admiral Sir William Hoste and his wife Lady Harriet Walpole. Her father died when she was a small child and her mother allegedly was careless of her relations with Lord Kilmorey. A year after their elopement, in July 1844, they had a child, Charles, who Lord Kilmorey acknowledged as his son and to whom he gave his surname.〔Charles was born on 20 July 1844 in Twickenham and died 25 February 1934 in Tylehurst, Sussex. See (Genealogics.org ) for his pedigree. Genealogics gives 19 July as his birth date, but the source ''Nederland's Adelboek'' (1939) says 20 July.〕 He set up his mistress in an adjoining house with an underground tunnel between the two.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Francis Needham, 2nd Earl of Kilmorey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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